St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-16
THE GIRL WANTED.

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to club composed exclusively of marriage
able young women of good social standing,
the object of the association being to pro-
mote matrimony. writes to the GLOBE for
advice and instruction. She says that the
club has utterly failed of its purpose, and
she and her associates are anxious to know
the causes of the failure.
From what we gather from our correspond
ents letter. and an accompanying copy of
the constitution and bylaws, the club was
organized on the basis of mutual aid So
ciety. The members were pledged to aid
each other in securing husbands No
person is admitted to membership
except young lady of recognized
social standing and between the ages of IS
and So wears. Each member is required to
cultivate winning manners and to study the
fashions with the view of always attiring
herself in the most attractive style. In
short, it is fundamental principle in the
constitution of the club that each member
is always to look sweet and catchy. An
other rule requires the members to omit no
opportunity to attend balls. parties, pic
MICS. theaters or respectable social gather
ings of any kind. The members are always
to be on the Qui vive and lose no opportu-
nifty to make an impression. Rivalry
in every form is ruled out. When
member makes mash the other men,
bers are pledged to keep hands off and
hearts away. They are required under the
constitution TO aid and abet the courtship of
any sister member by avaiing every oppor-
tunity to say good word in her behalf and
to encourage the suit of the love-stri cken
swain. Another striking provision of the
constitution is that whenever member en-
counters difficulty in obtaining the consent
of her parents to her marriage, her sisters
are under obligations to come to her assist
ance, and by resorting to acts which women
know so well how to employ, to win the
consent of the obdurate parents to
have the nuptials celebrated This
outline of the leading features of the organ
ization explains its general scope and OBJ
ject. Our correspondent bewails the fact
that notwithstanding the club has been in
existence for over two years and has an act
i've membership exceeding fifty of the most
eligible catches" in the city. not a men,
Der has been married in all that time Other
girls, who have not been connected with
any matrimonial association and who didn't
seem to be trying to get husbands, have
married and are settled down in comfort
able homes. These things have had dis
couraging effect on the young ladies of the
club and in the extremity of despair they
have appealed to the GLOBE for advice.
Well, girls, in the first place we advise
you to disband your organization and let
each young lady strike out on her own
hook for awhile. The membership of all
matrimonial associations should be confined
to two persons, and those two should be the
contracting parties. When a courtship is
on hand more than two is superauous In
the next place you want to change your
tactics and reduce your matrimonial bust
ness to different basis than that upon
which you have been operating. 1t isn't
the catchy looking girl who always
catches. Painted faces and silks and fur
bellows and bangs and all that sort
of thing look mighty pretty at balls and OPP
eras, but they are not the things which con-
tribute to domestic happiness. The secret
of your failure is that you have misunder-
stood the young men of the period. The
young men who want to marry. or at least
those who ought to marry. do not want doll
babies and wax figures and chatter-box
and fashion bazaars for wives. They can
buy them at the 99-cent stores The girls
that are wanted are the home girls-the
good girls who are their mothers right
handS-the girls that fathers and brothers
trust and who make themselves use
full in every department of the
home circle. The girls that are
wanted are the good girls, good from heart
to lip, who are fair OH the hearthstone as
well as in the opera box, and who shed a
radiance of kindness and sweetness in the
household and do not reserve all their